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News New 'Gal Guardians' Is A Gorgeous Throwback To Castlevania's Igarashi Era

Now in development

Inti Creates has revealed Gal Guardians: Servants of the Dark, a sequel to Gal Guardians: Demon Purge that takes the same slick gameplay and expands on it significantly, shifting the genre to a full-on Metroidvania. While there's no release window for this one yet, Inti Creates has confirmed that it's Switch-bound and will allow...

• Wed 25th Sep 2024
• Nintendo Switch
• Upcoming Releases
• Switch eShop

Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (27th July)

What a horrible night to have a curse

It's been a pretty quiet few days in the world of Nintendo, but as we're all gearing up for a another weekend of gaming, let's take a peek at some of the highlights of the week. First up, there's a new Nintendo Lego set incoming! Hooray! This one looks spectacular and is essentially a replica of the Mario &...

• Sat 27th Jul 2024
• Features
• Talking Point
• Nintendo Switch
• What Are You Playing

Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (23rd March)

Perfect organism

Hurray, it's the weekend! Before we dive into what we're going to be playing, let's take a look at what's been going on this week. For starters, we reviewed Princess Peach: Showtime! for the Switch, and surprise surprise, it turned out to be much better than we were expecting. We also got some really cool tidbits of information...

• Sat 23rd Mar 2024
• Features
• Talking Point
• Nintendo Switch
• What Are You Playing

Poll Box Art Brawl: Duel - Castlevania: Circle Of The Moon

A grave encounter

Hello folks, and welcome to another edition of Box Art Brawl! In last week's edition, Metroid Prime - one of the greatest console games of all time - entered the ring. As we'd predicted, it was a pretty close battle, but Japan's more action-packed (if you can call it that) design just managed to beat out North America and Europe's...

• Sun 31st Jul 2022
• Box Art Brawl
• Polls

Talking Point What Are You Playing This Weekend? (July 30th)

Chronicling the weekend

As we reach the end of yet another week in the year 2022, we also sit at the cusp of the eighth month of the year! In the news this week, Nintendo finally unveiled Wave 2 of Mario Kart 8 Deluxe's Booster Course Pass. Bandai Namco has asked Digimon Survive fans on social media to not spoil th

• Sat 30th Jul 2022
• Features
• Talking Point
• Nintendo Switch
• What Are You Playing

News Brutal Metroidvania 'The Last Faith' Is The Spawn Of Castlevania And Blasphemous

Not for the faint of heart

Are you a fan of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow? Are you a fan of Blasphemous? If you answered "yes" to both of those questions (heck, even just one), then you'll definitely want to keep an eye out for The Last Faith, a Souls-like Metroidvania (or 'soulsvania', according to the publisher) making its way to Switch later in...

• Sat 11th Jun 2022
• Nintendo Switch
• Upcoming Releases
• Switch eShop

News Castlevania Advance Collection Gets Updated Rating In Taiwan, Dracula X A Surprise Addition

Update: Official artwork also spotted

Update: As if it wasn't obvious enough already, the listing for Castlevania Advance Collection spotted in Taiwan now has official artwork associated with it (thanks, Gematsu), as well as more details on what games are included. The newly published description confirms that Castlevania: Circle of the Moon...

• Thu 23rd Sep 2021
• Nintendo Switch
• Switch eShop
• Castlevania
• Konami
• Taiwan

News 'Castlevania Advance Collection' Possibly Revealed By Rating In Australia

Update: Second rating appears in South Korea

Update: The Game Rating and Administration Committee of Korea has rated Castlevania Advance Collection for PC (thanks, Gematsu), which is another pretty solid indication that it's coming. Original Story [Fri 18th Jun, 2021 21:00 BST]: 2021 may just be the year of the Metroidvania, and

• Fri 25th Jun 2021
• Castlevania
• Konami

News There's A Whole Host Of Castlevania Soundtracks On Spotify Now

Listen to them - children of the night. What music they make!

Konami's Castlevania series isn't just famous for its tight gameplay, sprawling fortresses and inventive boss battles – it's also a series with some of the best music in the history of video games, and while Konami doesn't seem to have plans for any new entries right now (that's a...

• Wed 20th May 2020
• Castlevania
• Music

News Koji Igarashi Still Wants To Finish Two Castlevania "Episodes" With Konami

Please do!

Koji "Iga" Igarashi is best known for his work on the Castlevania series over the years, but right now, is exceptionally busy promoting Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night, due out later this month on the Switch. During an interview with Gematsu, though, he was asked if he would ever make another Castlevania if his former employer Konami...

• Wed 5th Jun 2019
• Nintendo Switch
• Konami
• Castlevania
• Koji Igarashi